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Final Day before Hearing - Let's Do This!!!!
The Reptile Nation is a bunch of Grass Roots Warriors! The letter count now tops 40,000 letters. The phone calls have clogged the Congressional phone lines. We are the smallest constituent group and we have dwarfed the response of the pet industry and all the other affected industries combined. The Reptile Nation has turned Capitol Hill upside down with phone calls and buried them under an avalanche of letters!!!
We have been focused on the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans & Wildlife.... because that is where the fight is! USARK has led the charge and the Reptile Nation has had an impact never seen before! Others may try and take credit for your victory when it comes, but no one can take this from those that have worked so hard to force the Subcommittee to take notice. It will belong to the Reptile Nation.
We are now in the 11th hour. I know that many of you have worked tirelessly to make this happen. You have my gratitude and respect. We need one more big push to KILL HR669. USARK will not compromise on this fundamentally flawed Bill. Our enemies at the Defenders of Wildlife have been so threatened by what we have done that they sent out a slick propaganda piece to influence the Subcommittee, but it is to little to late. They are doomed to be crushed under the weight of the Reptile Nation.
I need one more day of intense calling to Subcommittee offices. Get everyone you can think of to call and OPPOSE HR669. Call all day long. Overwhelm Capitol Hill again! They are unbelieving that we have been able to engineer this feat, and are destroying their Bill. MAKE YOUR CALLS!
With the Greatest Respect,
Andrew Wyatt
President USARK
To make it easier here are just the names and the phone number of each member and what to say. You can copy and paste them into a word document and print it up.
1. Give your name.
2. Remind them that they are on the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs Oceans & Wildlife.
3. Tell them you want to put on record your Strong Opposition to HR669.
4. Thank them for listening to your concerns.
Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Ch)(NP-Guam)
202/225-1188
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
202/225-2726
Henry Brown (R-SC)
202/225-3176
Lois Capps (D-CA)
202/225-3601
William Cassidy (R-LA)
202/225-3901
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
202/225-7751
Donna M. Christensen (NP-Virgin Islands)
202/225-1790
Diana L. DeGette (D-CO)
202/225-4431
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (NP – American Samoa)
202/225-8577
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
202/225-2635
John Fleming (R-LA)
202/225-2777
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
202/225-5816
Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)
202/225-3611
Ronald James Kind (D-WI)
202/225-5506
Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. (D-MD)
202/225-5311
Douglas L. Lamborn (R-CO)
202/225-4422
Frank J. Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
202/225-4671
Pedro R. Pierluisi (NP-Puerto Rico)
202/225-2615
Nick Joe Rahall, II (D-WV)
202/225-3452
Gregorio Sablan (I- Mariana Islands)
202/225-2646
Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
202/225-5456
Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
202/225-4261
Donald E. Young (R-AK)
202/225-5765
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Re: Final Day before Hearing - Let's Do This!!!!
And this when I asked how Monday went:
the calls were unbelieveable... that's all they are talking about on the Hill... Oh, and the 45,000+ letters!!!!
President USARK
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Re: Final Day before Hearing - Let's Do This!!!!
Originally Posted by rabernet
And this when I asked how Monday went:
45,000 letters..Let them ignore us again..If this thing gets out of this stage..I'd love to see them get 100K letters..
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Full court Press against HR669!
Full court Press against HR669!
The Reptile Nation is a bunch of Grass Roots Warriors! The letter count now tops 40,000 letters. The phone calls have clogged the Congressional phone lines. We are the smallest constituent group and we have dwarfed the response of the pet industry and all the other affected industries combined. The Reptile Nation has turned Capitol Hill upside down with phone calls and buried them under an avalanche of letters!!!
We have been focused on the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans & Wildlife.... because that is where the fight is! USARK has led the charge and the Reptile Nation has had an impact never seen before! Others may try and take credit for your victory when it comes, but no one can take this from those that have worked so hard to force the Subcommittee to take notice. It will belong to the Reptile Nation.
We are now in the 11th hour. I know that many of you have worked tirelessly to make this happen. You have my gratitude and respect. We need one more big push to KILL HR669. USARK will not compromise on this fundamentally flawed Bill. Our enemies at the Defenders of Wildlife have been so threatened by what we have done that they sent out a slick propaganda piece to influence the Subcommittee, but it is to little to late. They are doomed to be crushed under the weight of the Reptile Nation.
I need one more day of intense calling to Subcommittee offices. Get everyone you can think of to call and OPPOSE HR669. Call all day long. Overwhelm Capitol Hill again! They are unbelieving that we have been able to engineer this feat, and are destroying their Bill. MAKE YOUR CALLS!
With the Greatest Respect,
Andrew Wyatt
President USARK
To make it easier here are just the names and the phone number of each member and what to say. You can copy and paste them into a word document and print it up.
1. Give your name.
2. Remind them that they are on the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs Oceans & Wildlife.
3. Tell them you want to put on record your Strong Opposition to HR669.
4. Thank them for listening to your concerns.
Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Ch)(NP-Guam)
202/225-1188
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
202/225-2726
Henry Brown (R-SC)
202/225-3176
Lois Capps (D-CA)
202/225-3601
William Cassidy (R-LA)
202/225-3901
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
202/225-7751
Donna M. Christensen (NP-Virgin Islands)
202/225-1790
Diana L. DeGette (D-CO)
202/225-4431
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (NP – American Samoa)
202/225-8577
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
202/225-2635
John Fleming (R-LA)
202/225-2777
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
202/225-5816
Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)
202/225-3611
Ronald James Kind (D-WI)
202/225-5506
Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. (D-MD)
202/225-5311
Douglas L. Lamborn (R-CO)
202/225-4422
Frank J. Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
202/225-4671
Pedro R. Pierluisi (NP-Puerto Rico)
202/225-2615
Nick Joe Rahall, II (D-WV)
202/225-3452
Gregorio Sablan (I- Mariana Islands)
202/225-2646
Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
202/225-5456
Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
202/225-4261
Donald E. Young (R-AK)
202/225-5765
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Re: Full court Press against HR669!
The communication between the people who will be effected by this legislation and the people who oppose HR669, needs to be directed right at the sub committee members. An email sent to your congressman is good, but most congress members are not on the committee and do not know anything about it yet. Please do not comfort yourself with the notion that you sent an email and you did all you should. If that is all you did, you did do something, but a tiny fraction of what you should have done and you are a small portion of the voice that those committee members are hearing from those who sent their letters directly to the sub committee members through the USARK lobbyist, Tom Wolfe. Your email should have been followed up with letters to every single member of the sub committee! This is exactly why USARK has worked in the most effective manor to get the masses to communicate directly with the members of the sub-committee. Emails do count. However, they are not nearly as effective and weighty as a paper letter sent to the hill, but every little bit helps.
It’s not too late for you to make a meaningful contribution to the fight! Get on the phone and politely tell the sub committee members that you oppose HR669 in any form! Your Reptile business/hobby may depend on your call. Call now!
If this bill does not die April 23, we are not done! USARK is still leading the charge for the masses to send letters, and make phone calls until this is completely removed from consideration. Be prepared to continue the fight and do the right thing. If needed the next letter campaign will be even bigger! Even more meaningful and more of you can get with the program and give your support to USARK and the battle we cannot fight as effectively without your support and direct participation in sending in paper letters with your signature. The effectiveness and value of these letters cannot be overstated. Don’t take the lazy way out! Pick up that musket and get into the action!
Congratulations to all those that have joined the fight and contributed to the explosion that the 40,000 plus letters we are hand delivering last week and this week directly to the members of the sub committee. This is a direct result of the coming together of USARK and the thousands of people who have signed the letters that will be influential in the ultimate defeat of this fraudulent bill, that the extremists have tried to sneak through the congress.
Thank you!
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Re: Full court Press against HR669!
I have done and will continue to do my part until this insane bill is done with!!!!
Keep on pushing people and thank you for all the suport.
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Re: Full court Press against HR669!
Great post Andrew! And you are right when you say that this bill, or one very similar, will re-surface again. Let's not let the death of this bill pass us by. We need to tell everyone who will listen just how overwhelmingly this bill was defeated. Write a letter to the editor of your newspaper. Let's start gaining additional support for the next fight right now. Strike while the iron is hot folks!
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Re: Full court Press against HR669!
Wow the responce is very good. Unfourtunately i live in the uk, is there anyway i could help? Sounds like we have them on the back foot, funny how the most underrated group of pet owners strike the hardest. Dog and cat owners should be responding because the organization that put this forward wants to end ALL pet ownership by 2050.keep hitting them!!
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BPnet Veteran
Re: Final Day before Hearing - Let's Do This!!!!
Man, that letter sure has some encouraging words in there, but the job isn't done. We must continue to step up, continue calling and sending emails on a daily basis. The meeting is tomorrow, so once this is killed, which I throughly do believe will happen (IF WE KEEP UP THE PRESSURE, AND DON"T LET UP), we still don't need to sit around and do nothing. We need to join Pijac and USArk if you haven't already, because these are the groups that are standing up for us, and pointing us in the precise direction we need to go in. The more support these groups get, the safer we will be in the future.
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